By: Ryan Bosworth | Follow me on Twitter / X @RyanJBosworth
As disappointing as the 2024-25 season was, there was one positive that came out of it — Morgan Geekie’s shocking goal-scoring ability. He was arguably the most unlikely candidate to become a leading goal-scorer for a team that has David Pastrnak on their first line.
Geekie, 27, was released in the summer of 2023 by the Seattle Kraken, and signed by the Bruins to a two-year, $4 million contract when free agency opened. In his first season, 2023-24, he proved himself to be serviceable in a middle-six role — registering 17-22-39 through 76 games — a new career high for goals, assists, and points.
In his second year, he, along with the entire team, got off to a rocky start, and even earned himself a healthy scratch under former head coach Jim Montgomery. When Morgan was slotted back into the lineup, he made sure something like that never happened again.
Geekie went goal-less in his first 11 games of the season, and only registered two points through those 11 games. In his first game back after a handful of healthy scratches, Geekie registered his first goal. They didn’t exactly start flowing after that, though. It took some time for Geekie to find scoring traction, and it really took off in December, where he scored six goals on the month. His goals would continue to come as the New Year rolled around, and, after that, he just couldn’t stop scoring.
His surge in goal-scoring came in a contract year, so the Bruins had two paths: trade Geekie and get a serious return, or pay him his deserved contract and hope he can continue scoring. The Bruins chose the latter. He cashed in on a six-year, $33 million ($5.5 million per year) contract the night before free agency opened up this past summer, and his goal scoring to start the 2025-26 campaign didn’t miss a beat.
Geekie is remaining humble — as he’s been the whole time since he started consistently finding the back of the net — and on a recent episode of the Spittin’ Chiclets podcast, Morgan Geekie was a guest, and was asked point-blank about the upcoming Olympics.
Co-host Paul Bissonnette asked Geekie in the recent episode, “How much does [making Team Canada] consume your brain? You’ve scored the most goals in this calendar year in the [National Hockey League], do you feel like you’ve proven that you deserve to be on that team?”
“I don’t know. I mean, stats-wise, maybe… I said it earlier, I look at the roster as, like, a fan… who’s spot are you going to take? Really? For me, it’s like, I go up and down, and everybody’s a world-class player,” Morgan responded. “I’m a big a fan of these guys as everybody else is… I’m not really putting a ton of weight on it. Obviously, it’s getting a little closer to whenever they need the rosters, so I mean, you see it a little more now, but it’s not something I think about everyday.”
Looking at Geekie’s production to start the year, in-and-out of first place with Nathan MacKinnon for the lead in goals, the next biggest question came about: could Morgan Geekie produce without David Pastrnak? As soon as Pastrnak went down with a lower-body injury, we had our answer.
Pastrnak has missed the past five games of the Bruins’ season. Geekie, spending most of his time on a line with Alex Steeves and Elias Lindholm, notched five goals and four assists, totalling nine points in Pastrnak’s five-game absence.
Morgan Geekie has proven doubters wrong in every facet: became a regular goal-scorer in the NHL, did so without his top-right winger linemate for a stretch of games, and producing at over a point-per-game. He shouldn’t just be on Team Canada’s radar; he should be on the top of the list for a spot on the Olympic team.
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